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MIAMI: Keshet International has licensed its game-show format BOOM! to the Mexican broadcaster Azteca, which will air the show stripped in an access prime slot throughout the summer.

MIAMI: FremantleMedia and Argentina’s Telefe have entered into a two-year co-development partnership to create and develop entertainment/non-scripted formats for the Argentinian and wider-Latin American market.

MIAMI: Mexico's Televisa and Keshet International (KI) have struck up a partnership that will see four scripted formats getting remade with Spanish-language adaptations over the next three years.

LONDON: A number of formats from the ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) catalogue, among them BBQ Champ, have been licensed for adaptations in Brazil and Argentina.

LONDON: Twofour Group has tapped Ana De Moraes, previously the creative director for development central at the BBC, as the head of new formats.

LONDON: MTV UK is set to produce a local version of the U.S. format Teen Mom, which follows the lives and experiences of young mothers and is scheduled to premiere this fall.

TEL AVIV: TV Azteca has picked up the format rights for Dori Media’s romantic comedy My Lovely Hope (Esperanza mia).

MIAMI: A key priority for A+E Networks at NATPE is to bolster the company’s presence in the international format market. “We represent an enviable catalogue of premium format programming across multiple genres,” says Ellen Lovejoy, the VP of formats for …

LONDON: The BBC has confirmed that the fifth season of The Voice UK, which will begin airing in January 2016, will be the last one it will broadcast. Mark Linsey, the acting director of BBC Television, released a statement that …

TEL AVIV: Armoza Formats has licensed the comedic factual-entertainment format The Gran Plan to Bell Media's Canal Vie for French Canada. The local version of The Gran Plan, which will consist of 13 episodes produced by Zone3, is slated to …